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Your proposal to revive the draft is outrageously demeaning to women. You assign women the same status as cripples and exempt them altogether from conscription. Women should not be sheltered from the hardships-or deprived of the benefits-of military service. Only when women share equal responsibilities with men will they be treated as equal citizens...
When Bay State voters approved Proposition 2 1/2 last November, local politicians knew they would have to find replacement funds somewhere. With nearly 80 private--and tax-exempt--colleges and universities in Massachusetts, it was only natural for revenue-conscious politicians to look at institutions of higher learning as potential sources of income...
...several of his peers, and a group of local politicians advocated increasing state aid to communities with high concentrations of tax-exempt property, a proposal made by Northeastern University President Kenneth Ryder and Newton Mayor Theodore Mann...
About 55 per cent of Cambridge property is tax-exempt, much of it Harvard property, Sullivan said. Cutbacks resulting from Proposition 2 1/2 will make the city miss these revenues more than before, he said, adding that a bill now pending before the state assembly would allow the city to tax half of Harvard's property...
Handicapped students are exempt from the lottery, since only a few Houses, such as Quincy and Currier, have special ramps and elevators...